Digital Preservation Specialist

1 month ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Digital Preservation Coalition Full time
Digital Preservation Role at Digital Preservation Coalition

The Digital Preservation Coalition is seeking a skilled Digital Preservation Specialist to join its team. As a key member of the Digital Preservation team, you will play a crucial role in delivering the Digital Preservation Programme.

Key responsibilities include:

  1. Digital Collection Analysis: Lead a review of the digitisation workflow to inform its future state, focusing on day-to-day data management, preservation, and storage.
  2. Business Change: Determine and plan new processes and procedures for digital preservation, metadata improvement, and quality management and dataflow processes, and embed them into the work of staff.
  3. Stakeholder Engagement and Learning Delivery: Lead on training for new services delivered by the Programme, creating a training programme that addresses the needs of library staff who will use these services.
  4. Community, Collaboration, Advocacy: Work with the Head of Digital Preservation to build and manage mutually beneficial partnerships and networks within the Coalition, the University, and wider digital preservation and GLAM communities.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a talented team and contribute to the development of digital preservation services.



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